Brazilian Baring 3 8 9 



tarsi narrow. Prothorax gradually and moderately tubulate, the 

 small short basal lobe with an equilatero-triangular emargination, 

 receiving the basal angulation of the small and obtnangular flat, free 

 and apically truncate scutellum, the elytra deeply grooved, the 

 pygidium rather small, slightly oblique, semicircular convex very 

 coarsely punctate, feebly ridged along the middle and clothed with 

 sparse dark hairs. The unique type is as follows: 



Pycnorthoris hispidula-Oval, with slightly prominent humeri, deep black 

 throughout and shining, clothed above with very sparse erect dusky setae, beneath 

 with slender and subdecumbent, white and very sparse setiform ^amules, 

 beak ( 9 ) nearly three-fifths as long as the body, slender cyhndnc and smooth 

 excep at base, just visibly arcuate, the antenna, blackish, the scrobes in great 

 part inferior; p othorax short, three-fifths wider than long, the Sides converging 

 and moderat'ely arcuate from base to the feeble apical sinuses 1 *e ap« b«dy 

 half as wide as the base; punctures coarse, dense and rugulose at the sides 

 gradually isolated and mingled with smaller punctures medially, ^h smooth 

 median line- elytra obtusely oval, a fifth longer than wide, with broad and feebly 

 "en rant sutural angle, slightly wider than the prothorax and not quite twice as 

 ong grooves nearly smooth, a third as wide as the intervals which have single 

 series of strong, moderately separated punctures, bearing the suberect seta, ; under 

 surface coarsely, closely punctate, the abdomen evenly convex the last three 

 sutures rapidly reflexed at the sides. Length 34-3-65 mm.; width 1. 7-1. 75 mm. 

 Brazil (Santarem). Two specimens. 



A third specimen, agreeing in every way, was received from 

 Desbrochers des Loges, marked "Amazon." 



Onychobaris Lee. 

 This genus is abundant in the nearctic regions but apparently 

 not so developed in species in the tropics, and, in the collections at 

 hand, is represented by but a single species as follows: 



Onychobaris amazonica n. sp.-Stout, oblong-oval, strongly convex, shining 

 and pale brownish-red throughout, glabrous, the squamules of the under -surface 

 minute and entirely within the coarse punctures; beak evenly arcuate, cyhndnc 

 three-fourths as long as the prothorax, distinctly punctured-nearly smooth in 



helemale-the antenn* well behind the middle, slender and rather short the 

 first funicular joint about as long as the next three, the outer three joints a little 

 longer the club narrow, as long as the four preceding joints, gradually pointed 



rom behind the middle its basal segment two-fifths the mass; prothorax large, 



wo fifths (d-) to nearly half (9) wider than long, the sides rather strongly 

 subevenly arcuate, gradually parallel basally; apex very briefly and feeb y 

 subtubulL, half as wide as the base; basal lobe rather large gradual, even y 

 rounded; punctures strong, dense and longitudinally rugose at the sides gradually 



solafed 'inwardly and fine'and sparse medially, withVather wide smooth median 

 line; scutellum small, closely fitted, flat and equilatero-triangular; elytra short 

 ova , very little longer than wide, with feebly tumid humeri, about as wide as the 

 prothorax and one half (*) to two-thirds (9) longer; grooves deep, nearly 

 smooth fully a third as wide as the intervals, which have series of coarse and 



a her close, transverse punctures; pygidium vertical, large, evenly rounded and 



